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...Street Grill in Central Square. “Most reports are that [the ban] hurts business, and it’s probably going to hurt working class places the most.… I forecast that there’s going to be trouble. The neighbors are going to complain. You have potentially two- to five-hundred people outside smoking...
...more than seniors who would moan and groan about the difficulties they faced deciding what to do after graduation. (Actually, one thing was more irksome: seniors who started tedious and patronizing anecdotes with the phrase, “When I was a freshman.”) How anyone could complain about a future that included cable television and never again having to eat off dining hall trays totally baffled me. Now, of course, the future seems rather more daunting...
Some students complain that the threat of exams hanging over their heads ruins their enjoyment of break. And surely it does, if professors assign 25-page term papers for the third of January. But students are capable of putting their work on their minds’ back burners—they do everyday, maintaining extensive extracurricular and academic lives. To ease students’ minds during winter break does not require moving exams, only that professors restrict the work due after winter break to final papers and exams and assign due dates for the middle or end of reading period...
...What about longer-term effects when the silicone migrates beyond its capsule? No scientific studies have proven a connection between the implants and diseases like rheumatoid arthritis and lupus, but critics complain that the research hasn't been adequate, or over a long enough time period. Government-funded studies on immune responses following silicone implant leakage or rupture is ongoing, and many women swear there's a cause-and-effect relationship. Mary McDonough, who underwent breast augmentation to help her transition from being a young star of "The Waltons" to other film and television work, became progressively sicker with lupus...
...What do Harvard kids complain the most about? Would you call us more whiny intellectuals or self-aggrandizing crybabies...